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Shanti
USA
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 Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 09:29:21 AM
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We encounter many people in our lives. Some though, stick out, we become more aware of their presence, we get more attached to them, be it as an attraction or a repulsion (aversion).
These people are not there by chance. We attract them. Else they would be a part of the millions of people we encounter through our lives and not notice. They are there because there is some aspect about them that we either want to be, not aware that it is a part of us that is hidden in us, that just has to be seen (when there is an attraction) or there is some aspect about them that we have in ourselves that we don't like and are hiding from/not aware of consciously (when there is a repulsion or aversion, they make us angry or sad or bring up negative reactions in us).
If we can see this aspect, we can let the over-attachment go. When we see this aspect within ourselves, when we see we already have this aspect in us and don't need the other to complete us or don't have to be ashamed of (mind labels), we can embrace it all, good or bad and let it go.
When we see the aspect of another in us, that is keeping us attached to the other, we can let it go and accept and love the other and ourselves just as we are.
So, if we take a look at the people in our own life we may be overly attached to (attracted to or repulsed by), we can see what they are trying to show us about ourselves. There really is no other, it is all us. Not in a non-dual way, but in an acceptance way.
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 09:44:46 AM
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jeff
USA
971 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 11:02:04 AM
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Very beautifully said. 
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Edited by - jeff on Apr 21 2013 11:03:02 AM |
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Ananda
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Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 11:32:50 AM
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Bodhi Tree
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Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 12:36:25 PM
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This is incredibly insightful.
There is a fullness of Being that is brimming forth from our individual, microcosmic existences that will naturally fulfill our deepest desires in accordance with the Divine Plan to unify and harmonically allow all of creation to dance in never-ending expressions of genius and beauty.
Thank you, Shanti. |
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Kirtanman
USA
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Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 12:53:33 PM
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Enthusiastically agreed.
Thanks very much for posting this, Shanti.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 1:18:30 PM
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| Dear Shantiji When I think of you I just feel and think love... The divine mother in all her splendor... One of the greatest things I am very grateful to AYP and Yogani for is meeting beautiful souls such as yourself... Thank you for being who you are. Namaste |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 4:11:28 PM
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Thanks All!
I too am blessed to know you and all the others I know through this forum, Ananda!
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kami
USA
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Posted - Apr 21 2013 : 10:40:19 PM
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Beautiful, Shanti!
Was telling someone this morning that it seems that all people and relationships that come and go in my life = Krishna wanting to experience Himself in those specific ways - the joys, pain, sorrow and heartbreaks.. In ways that enable this journey home without stops or detours.. in ways known in their totality only to Him.
Clever, this Divine play, eh?
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Shanti
USA
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Posted - Apr 22 2013 : 07:57:11 AM
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Krishna! Krishna!
Always a troublemaker  and yet cannot help but love all of it, all of him, all of his Lila and his grace and beauty and love!
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